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Ronald Reagan's implied willingness to extend US adherence to the anti-ballistic missile treaty for at least five years--contained in his long-awaited letter to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev last week--was driven more by congressional budget cutting than by the dictates of US-Soviet diplomacy.

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